America Tips Into Fascism link

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+title: "Link: America Tips Into Fascism"
+slug: america-tips-into-fascism
+date: 2025-08-25T22:31:15-06:00
+tags:
+    - Politics
+    - USA
+---
+
+From Garrett Graff at [Doomsday Scenario][post]:
+
+> Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump is close to
+> batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led to the
+> Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place. [Does
+> any of this sound familiar][l1]:
+>
+> * He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
+>   public good.
+> * For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and
+>   altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
+> * He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent
+>   of our legislatures.
+> * He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
+>   Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
+> * He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to
+>   Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
+> * He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and
+>   waging War against us.
+> * For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
+> * For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
+> * For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
+> * For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
+
+[post]: https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d
+[l1]: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript